Okay, so my biggest comment on the Seven Years' War section is:
Ablenkung brachten kleine Ausflüge nach Fredersdorf zu den Podewils
"Little excursions to Fredersdorf at the Podewils' place brought some distraction."
I had to look this up: Podewils I know as Fritz's foreign minister, but my eyebrows flew up at Fredersdorf. Turns out that it's actually the name of Podewils' estate outside Berlin. Which makes sense, since all the -dorf(f)s we love or love to hate are etymologically -"village"s. The Podewils family mausoleum that our Podewils' son built is still there today, in Fredersdorf where lots of people live and commute to Berlin for work.
* This also led me to notice that Ziebura's index has a mistake: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf is listed as EC's brother Albert's chamberlain instead of Fritz's. I can see where, if you were reading the sentence where he shows up, you could parse "seinem" as referring to Albert instead of Fritz, but yeah, the index must have been put together by an editor or assistant who didn't know too terribly much about Fritz.
* AW trying to tell Mina about his feelings about his approaching death, her trying to cheer him up, and him withdrawing and realizing he had to lie to her too: I *knew* it! People who are dying often have a very hard time getting the support they need from the people around them, because those people are overwhelmed by emotions of their own. This is why I said I'd be totally behind AW if he chose to delude everyone to keep from having to perform emotional labor for them, as opposed to for their own good.
:(
* cahn have you been noticing Ziebura's frequent "despite several bloodlettings, so-and-so didn't get better"? You picked up on my comparable line in "Pulvis et Umbra", except that mine was meant to be humorous irony obvious to the reader (as it was to you), if not to the character whose POV this is, yet Ziebura seems like she's playing it straight? But it's really hard for me to tell that kind of nuance in German, so maybe not.
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Re: No Pity for the Wives readthrough (cont) - Seven Years' War
Date: 2020-09-15 05:20 pm (UTC)Ablenkung brachten kleine Ausflüge nach Fredersdorf zu den Podewils
"Little excursions to Fredersdorf at the Podewils' place brought some distraction."
I had to look this up: Podewils I know as Fritz's foreign minister, but my eyebrows flew up at Fredersdorf. Turns out that it's actually the name of Podewils' estate outside Berlin. Which makes sense, since all the -dorf(f)s we love or love to hate are etymologically -"village"s. The Podewils family mausoleum that our Podewils' son built is still there today, in Fredersdorf where lots of people live and commute to Berlin for work.
* This also led me to notice that Ziebura's index has a mistake: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf is listed as EC's brother Albert's chamberlain instead of Fritz's. I can see where, if you were reading the sentence where he shows up, you could parse "seinem" as referring to Albert instead of Fritz, but yeah, the index must have been put together by an editor or assistant who didn't know too terribly much about Fritz.
* AW trying to tell Mina about his feelings about his approaching death, her trying to cheer him up, and him withdrawing and realizing he had to lie to her too: I *knew* it! People who are dying often have a very hard time getting the support they need from the people around them, because those people are overwhelmed by emotions of their own. This is why I said I'd be totally behind AW if he chose to delude everyone to keep from having to perform emotional labor for them, as opposed to for their own good.
:(
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